By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER May 16, 2012 With one-in-six Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder last year, according to Fox News, the military is looking for alternative ways to treat sufferers of PTSD. One method on the rise is music therapy, including hip-hop for those who need something more [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER May 14, 2012 Rise-Ascend, formerly known as Ankh Amen RA, said his name change was inspired by the Falun Gong ideology of practicing truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. His latest album is a tribute to the spiritual group to stop their persecution in China. The Swedish producer, Direction, was first [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 27, 2012 The L.E.P. Bogus Boys disagreed with the Chicago Police’s decision to pull their performance at the House of Blues. The band was slated to take the stage on May 3rd as part of the ASAP Rocky/BEEN TRILL concert and were notified via email that they would [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 25, 2012 Twenty-five people were arrested yesterday in a four-year long investigation of a nationwide drug trafficking ring through Thizz Entertainment. Vallejo Police, with the help of the Drug Enforcement Administration, charged the rappers under the company with conspiracy to distribute chiefly ecstasy, as well as cocaine, heroin, [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 23, 2012 How John Forté became one of 14 people pardoned by President Bush in 2008, supported by the unlikely advocates of singer Carly Simon and Republican Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, or rising from his fatherless childhood in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to gain a scholarship to the Phillips Exeter [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 20, 2012 Mystikal, born Michael Tyler, is returning to prison for three months after serving only two of his five years on probation. He completed a six-year prison term in 2010 for sexual battery and distortion when Tyler pleaded guilty to forcing his hairstylist to perform “continuous sex [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 18, 2012 G. Dep has been formally found guilty of second-degree murder for the 1993 shooting death of John Henkel. After two years of uncertainty on the outcome of the trial following the rapper’s confession, G. Dep, real name Trevell Coleman, will face sentencing for the failed robbery. [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 16, 2012 Tupac Shakur was resurrected for one performance over the weekend at Coachella. His visage appeared before the concertgoers in Indio in a joint performance of “Hail Mary” and “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, who instigated the program. Collaborator Nick Smith [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 13, 2012 The liability of who is responsible for whom was turned on its head when the bodyguard of Twista was killed in a rollover crash inside the Chicago rapper’s tour bus. Arthur “Butch” Dixon died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries after Twista’s cousin fell asleep at [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 11, 2012 The wire is abuzz with the news that “Straight Outta Compton” will finally see itself made into a movie. The Hollywood Reporter writes that F. Gary Gray was chosen to direct the biopic on the Los Angeles seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A., beating out “Boyz N [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 9, 2012 Luck seems to be conspiring against Young Jeezy performing in Canada. Last Thursday, just past midnight at 12:30 a.m., Jeezy’s concert at the South Academy venue in Polson Pier, Toronto was shut down due to a shooting that broke out from an altercation between concert-goers. CTV [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 6, 2012 The University of Colorado’s annual concert on April 20th is meant to discourage students from smoking marijuana. UC-Boulder’s 4/20 gathering at Norlin Quad has established a reputation across college campuses to be the largest of its kind in the country, garnering the university the distinction as [...]
Photos: Los Angeles Riots in 1992 and 20 years later (page 1 of 2)
Los Angeles Riots property damage from 1992 and 1997
Funeral Service for Rolland Miller in Los Angeles
Candle light vigil for Rolland “Rocky” Miller turns out hundreds of friends
McDonald’s sign charging Blacks a surcharge is fake
James Whitey Bulger photos through the years